hi dudes. ive got a toshiba laptop thats just under a year old and i just get a few minor problems when running civ 4. firstlywhen i run the game during the trailer the image and the sound skips all the way through, no big deal, i just click to continue to the main menu. but when it gets to the main menu i get a msg saying "civilization 4 will not run with these hardware settings" (or a similar msg. im not at my computer at the moment so i cant check) also, when i go into the options to change the graphics detail to anything above 'low' it asks me to restart the program before the settings can take effect, a standard requirement only when i do this the settings are still the same. the thing is i can still run the game fine on these settings. the only visable problem is that all the animals on the map are invisible, only their shadows remain, a minor annoyance.
my specs are:
interl pentium centrino 1.7ghz
70gig hard drive
16x cd/dvd rom and cd burner
not entirely sure what my video card is, i assume its this: intel 82852/82855 gm/gme graphics controller ...im not the most knowledgeable computer geek when it comes to the 'blood and guts' of my machine..
i was wonderring if i could get some advice on how to solve these little f*!k ups. ive already downloaded the most recent drivers for both my video and sound cards, ive got the new patch as well (also i noticed that before i had the patch the message on the main menu didnt show up. but i did have the problem that when i started a game the map was all dark..which is solved now). so, yeah. any thoughts would be much appreciated.
thanks